Hi,
my name is Tom, Im 18 years old and Iam from Germany. My dad is a motorcar mechanic since 25 years in the local Opel dealership so I grew up whith the brand Opel.
I have a 1998 Opel Corsa B as a daily with steelies, KW coilovers and some other goodies.
But Ive always wanted another car, especially an older car, and It should be an Opel.
Last Thursday I went to look at this little 1992 Corsa A which I found on the internet, the ad says that it was in the garage for 15 years now because the owners died and the the people who buyed the apartment with garden and the garage had this car still in there. Now they want to sell it. So I drove 120km and I did take a look with a local buddy (also a huge car fan, he has the sickest Corsa B in Germany), who lives in the town but didnt even know that there is this little Corsa left in the garage. The body condition was very good because the garage is dry, so it has almost no rust, underneath it looked like brand new (didnt even had a bit rust on the wishbone!) and then I realised that I need to buy this thing.
So I called my dad which was on holiday and I told him everything about the car and how much I need it. He said that I can buy it, but we have no room for it (we need to find a shop soon).
2 days ago at my dads birthday we borrowed the wrecker from his work and we take the little Corsa home. It was 15 years in the garage but you could push it easily!
Here a pic from the garage in which the car was for 15 years:
On the wrecker:
Finally at home:
Next day (which was yesterday) I gave it a wash:
The paint looks better than on my 1998 Corsa B (and its exactly the same red!):
Cleaned the inside and tooked the seat covers off:
Looks like brand new.
In the engine bay was a squirrel or something, so it is a bit dirty:
But thats no big deal.
Now a little bit about the history of the car and then I tell you which plans I have:
The only owner (Im the second owner) died in 2002. His wife drove it till 2003 and she deregistered it in 2005. It has 33.397 kilometres on it, was every year (it drove around 4000 kilometres per year) at the dealership for service.
Over the car in the garage was hanging a roof box for the car, we opened it there and inside was still the wheelchair from the owners. We left it there because I only wanted the 2 basic roofracks.
It has also the sticker with the Tom & Jerry advertisement which is really cool:
And inside I found an map of Germany from 2001/2002:
Now to the plans which I have:
I want to lower it on coils, I already have the coils with shorter springs for the front here:
I want to put 15 inch Astra F steelies on which I also have:
And then I need a nice exhaust, and I want to change some little things like steering wheel (already have one too).
But first it needs to run so it gets an big service.
Stay tuned!
Greets Tom (sorry for my bad english)
my name is Tom, Im 18 years old and Iam from Germany. My dad is a motorcar mechanic since 25 years in the local Opel dealership so I grew up whith the brand Opel.
I have a 1998 Opel Corsa B as a daily with steelies, KW coilovers and some other goodies.
But Ive always wanted another car, especially an older car, and It should be an Opel.
Last Thursday I went to look at this little 1992 Corsa A which I found on the internet, the ad says that it was in the garage for 15 years now because the owners died and the the people who buyed the apartment with garden and the garage had this car still in there. Now they want to sell it. So I drove 120km and I did take a look with a local buddy (also a huge car fan, he has the sickest Corsa B in Germany), who lives in the town but didnt even know that there is this little Corsa left in the garage. The body condition was very good because the garage is dry, so it has almost no rust, underneath it looked like brand new (didnt even had a bit rust on the wishbone!) and then I realised that I need to buy this thing.
So I called my dad which was on holiday and I told him everything about the car and how much I need it. He said that I can buy it, but we have no room for it (we need to find a shop soon).
2 days ago at my dads birthday we borrowed the wrecker from his work and we take the little Corsa home. It was 15 years in the garage but you could push it easily!
Here a pic from the garage in which the car was for 15 years:
On the wrecker:
Finally at home:
Next day (which was yesterday) I gave it a wash:
The paint looks better than on my 1998 Corsa B (and its exactly the same red!):
Cleaned the inside and tooked the seat covers off:
Looks like brand new.
In the engine bay was a squirrel or something, so it is a bit dirty:
But thats no big deal.
Now a little bit about the history of the car and then I tell you which plans I have:
The only owner (Im the second owner) died in 2002. His wife drove it till 2003 and she deregistered it in 2005. It has 33.397 kilometres on it, was every year (it drove around 4000 kilometres per year) at the dealership for service.
Over the car in the garage was hanging a roof box for the car, we opened it there and inside was still the wheelchair from the owners. We left it there because I only wanted the 2 basic roofracks.
It has also the sticker with the Tom & Jerry advertisement which is really cool:
And inside I found an map of Germany from 2001/2002:
Now to the plans which I have:
I want to lower it on coils, I already have the coils with shorter springs for the front here:
I want to put 15 inch Astra F steelies on which I also have:
And then I need a nice exhaust, and I want to change some little things like steering wheel (already have one too).
But first it needs to run so it gets an big service.
Stay tuned!
Greets Tom (sorry for my bad english)
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